European Publishers Council sues Google for advertising monopolism
The European Publishers Council (EPC) has officially filed a complaint against Google over its digital advertising platform. The EPC, which defends the interests of European publishers, says that Google hinders competition and abuses its power in the field of digital advertising technology.
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Swedish price comparison platform sues Google for billions of euros
PriceRunner, a Swedish price comparison platform, sues Google for manipulating search results. Allegedly, Google is bumping its own price comparison service to the top of results. PriceRunner is suing Google for 22 billion Swedish kronor (2.1 billion euros).
PriceRunner states that Google manipu... Read more
EU Antitrust complaint targets Google Privacy Sandbox
Google is met with yet another complaint from German publishers on their new alternative towards third-party cookies
German publishers have raised a complaint with the EU antitrust on Google and its "Privacy Sandbox." The Privacy Sandbox will end support for third-party cookies on Google Chrome ... Read more
Ericsson sues Apple in Europe and Brazil
Ericsson filed a lawsuit against Apple in Brazil and Europe. The Swedish firm claims that Apple is infringing on its cellular data patents now that a 2015 license agreement between the companies has expired. Ericsson has now launched further lawsuits in Brazil, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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Former Chinese partner sues IBM for stealing trade secrets
The complaint accuses Big Blue of "fraudulent and unfair business practices".
Last week, Beijing Neu Cloud Oriental System Technology Co sued IBM Corp and its Chinese subsidiary in Manhattan federal court lfor allegedly stealing its trade secrets, according to Reuters. Neu Cloud is a joint ventu... Read more
Google did not violate copyright with Java code in Android
The US Supreme Court has ruled on a lawsuit filed by Oracle against Google. This brings an end to the more than ten-year-long legal battle about whether Google infringed Oracle's copyright by incorporating Java code into Android.
According to the Supreme Court, Google did not violate copyright, ... Read more
US temporarily lifts Xiaomi investment ban
A judge in the US has ruled that the current sanctions against Xiaomi are unlawful. Donald Trump had blacklisted the smartphone maker just before he left the White House.
Xiaomi was put on the so-called Communist Chinese Military Companies (CCMC) list. US citizens are not allowed to trade with o... Read more
Intel needs to pay billions after lost patent lawsuit
Processor manufacturer Intel has been ordered to pay 2.18 billion dollars to VLSI Technologies because the company is said to have infringed two patents held by VLSI.
It is not clear which patents are at issue, other than that they concern technologies for making processors faster. For the two i... Read more
‘Facebook wants to sue Apple for unfair App Store’
Facebook is said to be preparing a lawsuit against Apple for engaging in unfair business practices in the App Store. Apple would also have closed down their mobile operating system too much.
The Information writes that Facebook wants to sue Apple for several reasons. For instance, Facebook compl... Read more
Parler sues Amazon for taking down website
Parler has filed a lawsuit against Amazon. AWS was until recently the party that provided the hosting for the social medium but stopped doing so after the commotion surrounding the storming of the Capitol.
In the 18-page complaint, the social medium writes that Amazon's decision to stop hosting ... Read more